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Executive Habit of the Urgent and Important Quadrant

I have worked across many industries with dozens of executives; they are all busy people. It seems the more senior you are the crazier your day gets.
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INAPPROPRIATE MENTAL MODELS & MINDSETS AMONG EXECUTIVES

Most of my executive coaching focuses on adjusting, shifting, and changing the coachee’s mental model and associated mindset so that they can ...
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The Shadow Cast by "Team #1"

There is a widely held view amongst the coaching and change management community that the executives should be the first team to change in the Agile ...
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Celebrating Victory Too Early

Celebrating “We’re Agile” after some of the workforce has adopted sprints is similar to how George Bush celebrated “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” in Iraq a ...
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Over-Enablement / Under-Adoption

In Obstacle 3 of the Executive Whitepaper, we explore the challenges of Over-Enablement and Under-Adoption. My work empowers individuals to reshape ...
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Lack of purpose within the system

In Obstacle 2 of our Executive Whitepaper, we delve into how employees' motivation and job satisfaction tend to increase when they feel their work ...
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Over delegation leads to under-removal of impediments

In Obstacle 1 of our recent Executive Whitepaper, we discuss how sponsoring an Agile change program requires removing impediments.
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Obstacles to making the transition to Agile

I want to share the seven obstacles I consistently see that prevent organisations and executives from transitioning to higher levels of Agile ...
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Empowering Executives to Lead the Change

When executives lead change, obstacles will prevent the organisation from transforming.
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In “Responsive Agile Coaching” – Niall McShane draws on over a decade of agile coaching experience to document a clear and well-researched model that lifts the lid on how agile coaching actually works. The book starts by defining what the role of agile coach has become in recent times before putting forward a field-tested and theoretically sound model for conducting agile coaching conversations.